Blogs & Opinion
Gender Inclusivity in Attaining Food Security
25 February 2020
In nearly two thirds of the countries worldwide, women are more likely than men to face food insecurity. The differences in gender roles, norms, and relations also lead to women being more vulnerable...
Climate Heroines: Women on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
22 February 2020
They are the ones who pick up the pieces after extreme weather, droughts, floods, storms.They are the ones on the frontline when crops fail, when food is short, when water is scarce.They are the ones...
Educating Girls Is More Effective in the Climate Emergency than Many Green Technologies
21 February 2020
Hydrogen powered superyachts and donations from billionaires often grab headlines in the fight against climate change. Whilst more simple and potentially more effective ways to tackle the climate emer...
In Myanmar, a Land Rights Program Is Accelerating Gender Equality, Growing Rural Incomes, and Preserving Forests
21 February 2020 | Beth Roberts
Ma Phyu, who lives in one such village, recently received a land certificate guaranteeing her right to land she had been farming for two decades. After years living with the uncertainty of insecure la...
"Women, Peace, and Security" Initiatives Are National Security Initiatives
19 February 2020 | Alexandra A.K. Melse
Welcome to today’s symposium, “National Security as a Feminist Issue: Twenty Years of Women, Peace, and Security Initiatives.” In recognition of UN Security Council Resolution 1325’s impending...
Australia Needs to Walk the Talk on Women, Peace and Security
19 February 2020 | Louise Allen
In October 2000, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 1325, which formally established the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda. The agenda has become the central framework throu...
Meet Five Newly Empowered Women Farmers from Zambia and Mozambique
19 February 2020 | Patricia Malasha
Nine traditional chiefs have partnered with USAID and DFID over the last five years to demarcate and document the land rights of 30,000 women farmers across Zambia and Mozambique.The documents with...
Marriage of Survival: Will Climate Change Mean More Child Brides?
19 February 2020 | Abigail Higgins
After Cyclone Idai battered southern Malawi last year, the hotline Weston Msowoya manages was flooded with calls. They were reporting cases of young girls being married off in the tented camps hasti...
Gender Inequality, Health and Safety of Women in Small-Scale Mining
18 February 2020 | Gibson Mhaka
Narrating her life as a female miner, Ms Joyce Mpofu (54), a single mother from Bubi District of Matabeleland North province, shared incidents that threaten her health and safety daily as a woman in t...
India's Looming Water Scarcity and the Need for Bringing Women to the Centre Stage
12 February 2020 | Ananya Pathak
As the summer months approach, a reality haunts most households across the length and breadth of India and that is an impending water crisis. Be it cities, towns or villages, the reality and hardship...